The Bozeman weekly chronicle., 1887-08-24
Farm, Garden and Household.

price.
Better dig your potatoes as soon as the
vines begin to die.
Ifthe garden can not he kept in good
order, it is too large.
Keep the machine in good order. This
is the way to make it pay.
If an after. dinner nap of twenty minu
ties is good. than an occasional Saturday
half holiday is better, even in the busiest
of times. Judicious resting saves time.
Save a part of the geanings Of the
wheat fields for the poultry to thresh
out next winter. They will dotpe work
gratis and pay for the grain in high.pric-
ed eggs.
Now look out for clean seed wheat
The man who sows cookie and oats
among his wheat, after going to all the.
trouble and cost of preparing the ground
is a-well, he's mighty poor farmer.
that's all.
Look closely to the cellar In the
average dwelling-house it is the breed
ing ground of many of the ills that affect
the household. Permit no decaying
vegetables, stagnant air or other foul
thing to remain there for an hour.
Coburn's Indicator tells on young
man in Kansas who had come west "to
farm and grow up with The country"
that he hires negro to do his plowing,
and in order to see that no time is fooled
away lie rides one of the mules 50 as to
face the plowman, carrying an umbrella
over his own head and using big fan in
order to keed cool.
The heavy hoe requires strength 10
lift the extra weight. The dull hoe re.
quircs strength in bringing it down again
t., make it cut. These arc mighty poor
ways to use strength. Make the light
and sharp, that the strength may be used
for killing weeds and culiiyating vegeta-
bles. That is only an illustration; the
principle applies as well to the scythe
the cultivator and the reaper.
When you went in the pasture lot this
morning to catch your horse, holding the
halter behind you in one hand and
some salt before you in the other, and
when Dobbin tricked you and cantered
away you chased him and tried to corner
him and after while drove him to the
stable with the dog. BY this time you
were very mad and when YOU got hole
of Dobbin you whaled him with a club
That was human Tor inhuman,) but i
wasn't wise. Dvbbin will think that hi
was wl,aled for being caught and will
take pains to keep away from you mex
time.
A horse appreciates comfortable fit
ting harness as much as he does proper
ly fitted shoe. The latter, when set to-
tight or with nail driven into or nea
the sensitive issues, produces positive
lameness. Under this condition o
things he is promptly taken to the shCl
, for relief But he may suffer nearly o
quite as much from the chatting of bad
ly fitted collar or narrow belly-bant
, drawn too tight, or from check reil
, shortened up so as to form of itself ON
of the severest punishments. Either O
, these conditions will produce restivenes
, in the the dullest brute, and in the cas-
, of an animal of nervous Temperament
: and having a thin, sensitive skin, he /
a liable to become frantic, the obtus
4 owner or driver seldom appreciating til
origin of the difficulty.
q The earlier the strawberry psich is Sc
, out the better will be the crop next sea
, son ifgiven good care. Perhaps the bes
time to make beds is early in the sprin.
but farmer who has none of this de
) licious fruit may plant now and reap
4 fair crop next spring, while next spring
| planting will require years care befcr
1 getting anything from it. Do not tax
: all plants from the bods. Wait until tn
new runners are fairly rooted and sc
them. While the peculiarities of flavo
and growth are fresh on the mind ii j
easier for the planter tn select what h,
, wants. Trust good deal to the recon-
mendaiion Of the grower, A fruit grow
er is dsinterestered adviser and Is snr
to know facts about the ability of yalio,i
, kinds OF your location that NAV. perhaps
: outweiglt all others considerations.
t 1t is sometimes astonishing to mel
: and women with somewhat ,lrlicat,
! stomachs how heartily workers un tn,
} harvest field or at thrca'hing will tax,
, to the most substantial victuals. P,rl
and potatoes or pork and beans. Fu
threshers the extra piece of roast beef il
generally provided because the fa,nil,
table Is then much larger and such
standby helps out the housewife in pro
viding for horde of hungry men. They
will eat almost anything that is substan.
tial food, but do not usually banker attel
delicacies. When it comes to the table
tea, coffee and cocoa with plenty of COO
water are enough for drinks, and littl,
care need be given to delicacies such a,
sauces and cake. Men who work hard
est care least for these. tits nurishment
for strength rather than something t.
tickle the palate that they most require
A breakage of machinery or stoppage
of the engine from any cause is bat
enough for the thresher, but a grea
deal worse for the farmer. He has gen
orally large number of men hiret
whom he has to pay and board while
standing idle, and with usually nc
chance to set them at anythinu alsa